The 2020 Spring Training Baseball Card Challenge

Spring Training for 2020 begins on February 12, when three teams welcome pitchers and catchers in from the winter cold.

Over the ensuing 43 days, Major League teams will fill up stadiums and complexes throughout the Grapefruit and Cactus Leagues as they prepare for what they all hope will turn into a championship season.

Of course, only one of them will reach that ultimate goal, and it will take another seven months to sort it all out. But by Opening Day on March 26 (the earliest start ever!), we’ll at least know more about our favorite teams and players than we do right now.

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To help set the cardboard mood for all the jostling to come, I’ve decided to spend the 43 days of Spring Training — plus a couple beforehand and Opening Day itself — dusting off the Spring Training Baseball Card Challenge that I began last year.

Specifically, I plan to choose one card each day, each with at least some tangential connection to spring and Spring Training … but rather than write about it here, I’m going to give each card a quick video treatment over on our YouTube channel.